PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. The Book Of Common Prayer - WITH - The Hymnal. (2 VOLUMES - INDIA PAPER EDITION)
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AUTHOR: PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
TITLE: The Book Of Common Prayer - WITH - The Hymnal.
PUBLISHER: NY: Oxford University Press, 1907/1920.
DESCRIPTION: INDIA PAPER EDITION. 2 vols., 6" x 3-3/4", 566 & 547pp., bound in full blue morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spines, covers with gilt decorated multi-colored morocco onlays, gilt cross to covers, red garnet inlay to the cross center on "Common Prayer", gilt decorated blue morocco doublures, tan silk endpapers, all edges gilt, blue silk page markers, by Grabau.
CONDITION: Blindstamp to title pages, bookplate of Charles Cobb Walker to front endpaper of "Hymnal", internally clean and bright, hinges fine, head and foot of spines fine, A VERY GOOD SET.
ADDITIONAL INFORMANTION: John Frederick Grabau was born in Wisconsin in 1878. He trained as an artistic bookbinder, apprenticing in the printing shop of Gies & Co. and at Peter Paul’s bookbindery. In 1902, Grabau became the protégé of Louis H. Kinder at the Roycroft community bindery. Kinder founded the Roycroft Bindery in 1896 and attracted many talented young artists, including Grabau. Grabau left Roycroft in 1905 to found the Derome Bindery in Buffalo, New York. He named the bindery after Nicolas Derome, who was noted for his dentelle borders. Grabau died in Aurora, New York, in 1948.
